Chartered Mcipd Commercial and Creative Hr Leader

Scaled the business and developed Culture, Leadership and HR team to enable 4 X revenue growth and diversification following VC investment, in a rapidly changing operating environment.

Built and ran my own HR Consultancy delivering a number of interim and project assignments and advisory work across sectors and company sizes, focusing on Creative, Technology and B2B Services.

MENCAP, care sector non-profit with £200m turnover and 8000+ staff:

• Senior HR Business Partner (interim) for Corporate Functions, including Technology & Data, Finance, Legal, HR and Quality. Report to CFO, part of directorate Leadership Team and HR Leadership Team.
• Defined and delivered departmental People Plans and projects liaising with Centre of Excellence teams. Designed and ran HR leadership development day.
• Programme Manager for Business Services review. Led project team; delivered organisation design proposal to streamline activity, provide a better service to stakeholders and achieve cost-savings.
• Career Development design based on agile, user-led design principles which gave the organisation a framework for career conversations and demonstrated agile ways of working in practice.

NEXSTIM, global medical technology SME with 50 staff:

• Talent Review & Capability Planning toolkit to give a single view of talent and facilitate workforce planning and development in line with strategy. Completed leadership review for the Board.

WHITEFOX, UK, US and Canada-based sustainability engineering business:

• Succession Planning programme design and delivery to shift to a more strategic approach to People. Created guidance materials and trained leadership teams to use the approach.

GROWTH INTELLIGENCE, AI sales tech scale-up serving B2B enterprise:

• Head of Talent Acquisition for commercial and technical roles to enable growth and reduce senior leaders' time on hiring, with impact described by the CEO as 'transformative'.

YOULEND, hyper-growth FinTech with 400% YOY expansion:

• Talent Acquisition for a number of functions and roles at high volume and pace, including EMEA & US Business Development, Operations & Compliance; reducing managers' time on hiring.

Advised a number of Creative and B2B service businesses on People strategy, Culture, Performance, Reward, Management development; ER cases and employment law to help them work effectively and build their desired culture.

HR Transformation to embed new Strategy in collaboration with Centres of Excellence; organisation development and coaching my business areas to navigate the culture and achieve impact.

• The multi-award winning Marketing team credited me as their most helpful and value-adding HRBP ever, after I resolved a number of long-standing issues around compensation, roles and recruitment.
• Leadership development including Marketing people manager engagement survey analysis and actions, Digital Leadership competency framework definition, and coaching on people development.
• Led cross-functional Talent Reviews, Succession planning and Emerging Leaders programmes that facilitated career development, talent deployment and secondments across the organisation.
• Delivered HR Transformation by implementing a number of process changes with management teams including simplified Performance and Reward; new Graduate and Apprenticeships programmes.
• Customer Experience organisation design, role profiles and change management to consolidate activity from several business units into one team of c. 50 staff.
• Data Science operating model development, helping this brand new function gain traction and begin to transform the company's ways of operating across functions around data and analytics.

Created HR strategy enabling global market growth and full-scale modernisation of the business.

Built scalable HR & Culture enabling the company to grow at a rate of +40% new business per year.